4 Strange Cannabis Laws Every Oregonian Should Know

1. Unless you own your home, or have permissive landlords, there’s almost nowhere for adult cannabis consumers to smoke legally.

In Oregon, cannabis consumers are prohibited from lighting up in public places, including parking lots, parks and forests. They are prohibited from consuming in a parked car, within 10 feet of a building, in hotels or other buildings regulated by the Indoor Clean Air Act. And unless you own your home, or your landlord doesn’t specifically prohibit smoking, one can’t even consume smokeable cannabis on their patio or balcony. What's more, someone caught smoking cannabis in housing provided or subsidized by the federal government can be evicted, even if they belong to the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program. This begs the question: where can adults consume safely and legally? The answer, we hope, will come in the form of legalization and the formation of cannabis lounges. The Oregon Cannabis Retailers Association, a non-profit trade association that lobbies and advocates on behalf of the cannabis industry, has made cannabis lounges a legislative priority for 2017 and beyond.

3. Everyone who purchases cannabis from a dispensary, yes everyone, must be given marijuana information card at the end of each sale.

Are you familiar with this little card? Of course you are! You leave with one every time you purchase cannabis from a dispensary. That means that at shops like High Quality, we hand out well over 50,000 of these puppies each year. With over 400 dispensaries in Oregon, one could assume over 20 million of these marijuana informational cards are distributed annually in Oregon.